Improved spittoon foe cars



auch mittag attent @tiene J. "H". SEYMOUR, Oli" H'GERST'OWN, MARYLAND Letters Patent No. 74,610, dated February- 18, 18.648.

IMPROVED SPI-TTOON FOR GARS.

T0 ALI] WHOM-IT. MY 'CQNCERN l v 'Be it known that I, JfH. Samnaun,I of Hagerstown, in the `county of Washington, and State of Maryland, have invented 'certain new and useful Improvements in Spittoons for Cars, Zinc.; and I do'hereby declare :that the following is a full, clear, and `exact description of the same,. refer'ence being had to the accompanying draw` ings, making aportion of this specification, in whichp l l v .1

' Figure 1 isa vertical transverse section of a spittoon made accordingA to my invention.

Figure 2 isla planrview of the same. i

I Similar letterslof reference indicate corresponding parts in both iig'ufres. l

f l This invention is designed more particularly for use in cars having double bottoms, and may be considered as' an improvement on the inventions set forth in my Letters Patent, numbered 54,613 -andr59,280 respectively, and it consists in a funnel-shapedshell, so combined with the 'spittoon and the bottom of the car as `to prevent the sliavings or similar filling ordinarilyemployed to dead'eu sound in the ca-bottom from4 interfering with the proper operation of the valve of the spittoon when the latter isV used. l

Y .The inuentionfurth'er consists in a novelmeans whereby the choking of the'outlet-neck of the spittoon from the partial freezing ofthemateri'al that may accumulate therein, is ei'ectually providedvagvainst. j

i "To .enable others tol understand the nature and construction of my inventimi will proceed to'describe it with reference 'to the drawings.

v A and Af indicate the upper and lower portions ofthe double floor of acar, `the space between'such porf tions'being ordinarily filled with shavings or equivalent material to. deadensound upon the'iioor. vFitted into Yand extending through this :door is-a funnel-shaped shell, B, to the` lower end of which is attached the conductingpipeshown in red outline ih fig. 1, which serves to' convey awayvthe matter or material passing from the spit-v toon. Y 4lhespittoon is'shown at l(l, `and should, for the mostpart, be of conical form, as represented in fig. l, and is suspended within the shell Bfby vmeans of a anch, ak, provided upon its upper edge or circumference, nndlrestingnpon the upper portion'of' theoor at the top `of the shell, asshown in the figure just mentioned. The s pittoon C has formed at its lower end the neck a, which is slightly conical in shape, being widest at its lower end. Pivoted at one side of this neck, at the bottoni thereof, is a Valve, @which is provided witha downwardly-extending arm, [1*,to which is pivoted 'the lower end of a sliding piece or bar, D, which extends ,through a slot, a', iin the shell, and an opening, 6', in the upper part of the door, and has formed at its upper end a curved surface,'o. The lid or cover C* of the spittoon works nponra vertical pivot, ci, in 4such manner that it may be turned laterally `to open or close the spittoon. As the cver C* is turned aside to uncover the spit- 'toon it acts u on the surface c of the slidinv iece D, and, forcin the same downward causes it to turn the i P e P g 1 valve b upward against the end ofthe neck, thus closing the same, asshownin therdrawings, and when the cover is moved inward'to'close the spittoon, it is brought away ,from the surface ci of -the sliding piece D, which being vreleased, enables 'the valve b to fall by its own weightas indicated in red outline` in lig; l, opening the neck a,V

and permitting the substances'therein yto fall down into the shell B, and thence into the'conductingpipe connected therewith.

Inasmuch as the shell extends considerably below the spittOOn, ample room for the movement of the valve 'b is ail'orded,and as the shell 'eli'ectually'separates the Yspittoon4 from theQlling betweeuthe two portionsvof the iloor, it follows thatsuch lling cannotin any interfere' with thejju'st herein-described operation ofthe valve. v Furthermore, the n eck a, being-longest at its lowerend, any retention ofthe substances' situated therein, or, in

other words, upon the valve,fwhen the latter is in position to close the neck, vwhich would otherwise occur in case such substances should become partially frozen, is veryl securely vprovided,"against, Athe substances dropping freely from the neck, instead of adhering tol-the sides thereof. Y

i LWhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is,-'

1. The combination of the conical shell V1? Vwith the spitton C and the bottom A A*, substantially as and for the purpose specified, i K

.2. The neck a, made with its interior of conical form, and largestat its lower end, arranged at the bottom of the spittoon C, and in relationwith the'valve-b, subs,tantially` as and for the purpose specified..

` J. n. snYMoUn.

Witnessesn Ezne Wars, F; J. Poser. 

